The boundless positivity and radiant world of renowned street artist Mr Brainwash is captured in this vivid survey, now in a revised and extended paperback edition. Playful, colourful, with a hint of mischief, each work is a journey through his pop culture wonderland.

Every surface in the world is a cloak-and-dagger canvas for Mr. Brainwash’s franchise of the mind. In 2006 Mr. Brainwash set aside his video camera and quickly became renowned in the burgeoning street art scene alongside Banksy, Shepard Fairey and Invader. Brought to wider attention by Banksy’s 2010 documentary film Exit Through the Gift Shop, Mr. Brainwash’s massive solo art shows have attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors globally and his works have become desirable collector’s items.

This first paperback edition is an updated version of the popular 2018 publication, with 16 extra pages showcasing the artist’s latest works – including giant Beverly Hills origami sculptures and the Mr. Brainwash Museum in Los Angeles. This rich selection is complemented with critical essays by art historians Eleanor Heartney and Donald Kuspit.

Richly illustrated guide to the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, published to mark the opening of the museum’s new landmark building.

Founded in 1937, the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts is the largest cultural institution of its kind in the region, offering a unique blend of visual and performing arts experiences. This book celebrates the opening of the museum’s new landmark building, introducing the museum’s collection for the first time within its stunning architecture, designed by Studio Gang, and landscape, designed by SCAPE.

AMFA’s international collection spans seven centuries, with strengths in works on paper and contemporary craft, and includes notable holdings by artists from Arkansas, the Mid-South region and across the United States and Europe. Located in Little Rock’s oldest urban green space, MacArthur Park, AMFA’s landmark building and grounds are realised in collaboration with Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects.

This celebratory volume will be essential to all visitors, and anyone interested in the art and architecture of the American South.

The years between the Revolution of 1848 and the end of World War II were characterised by profound social, intellectual and political change in France. The art world, centred in Paris, also witnessed remarkable transformations as artists experimented with bold, expressive styles – Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, Fauvism, Cubism and Surrealism – that soon joined the Western artistic canon.

This splendid volume, refreshed with new artworks, feature masterpieces from the Brooklyn Museum’s renowned European collection, marking France as the centre of international modernism from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century. Ranging in scale, subject and style, these paintings and sculptures were produced by the era’s leading artists, both French-born and others who studied and worked in France. Artists represented include Cézanne, Chagall, Courbet, Degas, Derain, Matisse, Monet, Morisot, Renoir, Rodin and Vuillard.

Organised into four sections, the works in French Moderns exemplify the successive avant-garde movements that defined modern art in the 19th and 20th centuries, tracing a shift from naturalism to the rise of abstraction. The themes of ‘Landscape’, ‘Still Life’, ‘Portraits and Figures’ and ‘The Nude’ reveal illuminating comparisons and contrasts across time and mediums.

This new revised and updated hardback edition is published to coincide with an exhibition touring the USA: Portland Art Museum, OR (June 8–Sept 15, 2024; Columbia Museum of Art, SC (Oct 5, 2024–Jan, 2025); Vero Beach Museum of Art, FL (Feb 1–June 22, 2025); Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL (Aug 5, 2025–Jan 4, 2026); Birmingham Museum of Art, AL (Jan 30–May 24, 2026).

This new title in the Director’s Choice series guides the reader through the most important of the richly preserved cultural buildings in Bohemia and Moravia. 

The National Heritage Institute of the Czech Republic is the leading professional institution for heritage care in the Czech Republic. It manages over a hundred historic buildings and their grounds – castles, chateaux, monasteries, churches, industrial sites, garden complexes and other places.

Nad’a Goryczková, the general director of the Institute, presents a wide range of architecture, from medieval castles, Renaissance and Baroque residences to Neoclassical and Romanticism-inspired nineteenth-century mansions, together with stories of their founders, owners and designers. These sites can all boast well-preserved historical interiors, extensive collections of art and historical furniture and an impressive selection of objects associated with everyday life over many centuries.

Glass: Sand, Ash, Heat tells a multi-faceted story of scientific achievement, worldwide trade in objects and ideas, and, always, beautiful artistic expression.

The New Orleans Museum of Art holds an extraordinary collection of glass, with nearly 5,000 works ranging from tiny ancient Egyptian amulets to large-scale contemporary works of conceptual sculpture and including nearly every moment of glass expression between. This richly illustrated survey presents different avenues of understanding and interpreting these works of art, bringing together essays by museum curators and conservators, as well as a glass artist, a foodways historian, a laboratory scientist, and a New Orleans Black Masking Mardi Gras Indian. Glass: Sand, Ash, Heat reveals human connection through glass, a material that embodies a rich historical exchange between technology and the arts.

Celebrating the restoration and opening to the public of the Semler Residence, one of Pilsen, Czech Republic’s most important modern landmarks.

The Semler Residence was created according to the modernist design of the world-renowned architect Adolf Loos, and realised after his death by his close associate and pupil Heinrich Kulka. Following a decade-long endeavour of careful restoration, Semler’s residence has now been opened to the public in a form that preserves its original essence, securing its place among the Czech Republic’s most important architectural interwar landmarks.

The Semler Residence is managed by The Gallery of West Bohemia in Pilsen, which is one of the Czech Republic’s foremost institutions for exhibitions, collections and cultural preservation. With a diverse collection comprising more than 13,000 paintings, graphics and sculptural works of art, architectural designs, models, drawings and photographs, it is a cornerstone of artistic heritage. The gallery’s main exhibition spaces are housed within a former medieval meat market – one of the typical symbols of the city of Pilsen – and alongside three adjacent buildings, it not only accommodates exhibition and collection activities but facilitates research, restoration, library services, art promotion and international collaborations.

In this new addition to Scala’s Director’s Choice series, director Alexandra Kusá handpicks her selection of the Slovak National Gallery’s finest objects. 

Established in 1948 by the Slovak National Council, the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava originally functioned as a traditional Fine Arts museum showcasing local and European artworks. Over time, it expanded to include a rich collection of 20th-century art, capturing the essence of contemporary culture. Now with a collection of around 70,000 items, ranging from historical to modern and contemporary arts, the Gallery plays a vital role in celebrating and safeguarding Slovakia’s cultural heritage, which this engaging book offers a glimpse into.